PRINTED 4950 Serving Newmarket Aurora and the Rural Districts of North York For three months lone W Newmarket W52 Trading Aurora Others TOTAL PAID YEAR EXPRESS HERALD YEAR NO JO ARKET ONTARIO THURSDAY OCTOBER 1955 Here and There Around Town By Local Observer We wonder how many New market citizens know where the following streets are located Crescent Mary St Crescent Crescent Stewart St Carol St or Ave Belfry Drive James St Elgin St- Dixon Maple St Drive Queens Lane How well do you know your home town How many of these streets could you find Possibly you could not find any of them because it is doubt ful that any have street signs The above streets are some of the new ones listed in the new telephone book coming out this week One of the current subjects in Newmarket is the proposed con struction of a sewage disposal plant The problem of sewage disposal in Aurora has had more publicity because of an odor problem But Aurora is only half as guilty as Newmarket it has had a disposal plant for years Unfortunately its capacity cannot cope with the local The town has now de cided to enlarge its plant In regard to the Aurora odor problem Reader Horace Brown suggests that the towns name be changed to temporarily Probably some people could think of worse names for New market particularly those who live near the river north of town SINGLE COPIES CENTS EACH Council Ends Bondi Agreement Puts Eagle Property Up For Tender School Bus Is Hit From Rear On Yonge Street Fortunately no one was in jured in an accident on St this morning involving a school bus The southbound bus driv en by Sam King Mark St Auro ra stopped at to take on school children when it was struck by a car from behind More serious results were pre vented because the driver was holding his foot on the brake pedal while the children were stepping into the bus- The southbound car was being driven by Margaret Fry Bolton Avenue Newmarket It struck the rear corner of the bus as the driver swerved out Into the Jane according- to re- ft taxes paid ami refund be SI A proposal to extend the time limit on an agreement so that a apartment building could be constructed on Eagle St was turned down by New market council Monday night The property which was pur chased by Charles from the town two years ago went back into the towns hands be cause of a lime lapse on agree ment It is located on the south side of Eagle St east of the Bell Telephone companys equipment building The agreement had stipulated that either homes or a apartment house fie con structed within two years Frank was planning the con struction buildings land Two weeks ago only Edward Wrightman opposed the reeves proposal saying that the matter should be left a week and that the property committee bring in something concrete on the subject In the meantime the mayor and the deputyreeve called the property committee in on a meet ing with the owner As a result of that meeting anew resolution Bert Kent spoke strongly against it they were in favor of selling the land by tender Both said that the policy of tendering should be followed It was explained that Mr could again tender for the purchase of the property and proceed with his plans after pur chasing it again The highest tender would not necessarily be accepted some members said be- ration of to flings Councillor Kent tend the time to build on the JJ lots for one year from Septeni- J- be granted upon I to Wing that fur- her sum of be paid and ports The bus and car were pointed out that damaged expired arid or the school chiidren were knocked to the floor the bus Miss Fry was shaken but unhurt though the right side of her was smashed in the rid no building had en erected He pi oposcd that the owner be paid back the purchase price of and that the land be sold by ton- it dor He stud his property com- A following school bus owned To Start Paving Timothy Parking lot The Timothy Water Streets parking lot is being paved- Work was to have started today on the paving The new surface is be ing provided in agreement with the town of Newmarket The Warren Paving plan ned to start today so town offi cials barricaded off the entire lot The result raised a protest from citizens who use the lot Property chairman Joseph Dales asked whether or not half of the lot could be kept clear for use Cars belonging to Office Spe cially employees were lined on Prospect St as far north as Queen St while the lot remain ed empty Four graduates of Newmarket high school one from Newmarket and three from Keswick left Sunday in this panel truck for a year of travelling Their objective is a trip around the world They are left to right Terry Carter of Newmarket and Anthony Jerry Porter and Jim Wilson all of Keswick They are now on their way to the west coast and will travel south from Vancouver to Mexico and South America They hope to cross the Atlantic from South America to France or India Photo by OFF IN A PANEL TRUCK Four High School Graduates Aim For Round World Trip In A Year As their panel truck left welcome said Jerry from in Mexico to Taua- Oct 2 the first phase Of course some of those on Sunday of a roundtheworld trip began stops may be compulsory for four youths Jerry Porter Jim Terry If were flat well Wilson Anthony all of have no choice If things are Keswick and Terry Carter of flush at the moment well stilt Newmarket take any job that comes our way Since the end of school preparation for another From British Columbia the i Supermarket Planned For Area Plans for a supermarket on Eagle St near were re vealed at a meeting of Newmar ket council Monday night Council received a letter from an official of Toronto real estate company which has bought a considerable amount of land fronting the north side of Eagle St about yards east of St The property ex tends north as far as the farm The letter stated that there were no municipal restrictions in the area which would prevent the real estate firm from estab lishing a supermarket so the land was purchased The matter was referred to the town plan ning committee June the quartette has been Working on the truck convert ing it into living quarters but the plans for the trip date back much further than that In fact the boys arent certain their dreams of world travel ceased to be timefillers and took on definite meaning They do know that every waking moment for many long months has been filled with for the trip For as well as the work of installing stove refrigerator storage cupboards and two windows in their panel truck the four boys all of whom graduated from Newmar ket high school have worked at an assortment of Jobs to earn the extra money to start them on their journey They have farm ed sold insurance served in the reserve worked in a and picked apples wanderers plan to travel south along the we3t the mountains before turning east lo the Mississippi River which they plan to follow to New Orleans They will cross the southern United States to California and into Mexico For approximately miles Child Killed By Tractor On Farm Near A three year child was kill ed by his fathers tractor yester day on a farm north of Billy Cooper son of Mr and Mrs Verne Cooper died vhile he was being rushed to York County hospital j Mr Cooper was operating his a tractor near the barn The child As for the trip itself the boys outside but the fa- are certain of only one thing wa3 Guatemala there is no road They will ship their truck this distance by rail and continue south into South America along the Atlantic const to de of Buenos Aires The political atmosphere in Argentina will influence out route said Jerry If things ore still unsettled we wont go that far south And from there well depends on where the freighter sails on which we con ship Were prepared to split into pairs at this point to get jobs aboard a ship and weve been told that our chances of employment are fairly good at any of the large Atlantic ports in South America he added It might be that well visit India before we hit England or France continued Tony But by Coach Lines took the pupils to Aurora district high school Smash HeadOn In m m A truck and a car collided in the centre of at pm yesterday and tied up long lines of traffic Three persons slightly injured were taken to hospital According to the story given to police a truck driven by How- Draper was northbound on County road 12 It swerved to avoid crashing in to a car which Mr Draper stat ed came out from the The swerve sent the Draper truck headon into a cor driven south by Thomas car had Mrs Dcvries and Mr and Mrs Leo Cost Blenheim as passengers All except the driver suffered minor cuts and bruises and were released after examination at York County hospital Mr told police that he saw no other car but that Drapers truck suddenly appear ed hi front of him heading up the wrong side of the road DRAMATIC CLUB TONIGHT A meeting of the Newmarket Dramatic club will be held in the town hall tonight at 8 pm Anyone Interested in the club Is Invited to attend The had a offer for the I is and tuxes be vmed by the applicant and that the resolution cancelling the for sale be amended accordingly When the resolution was brought to council both Coun cillor A Cooperation Must Work Both Ways Township Tells Newmarket Officials I the issue and that he might as It was politely pointed out to required for the proposed we bring out nil the facts He Councillor said that the proposal to call for tenders was only going through the inO and that members of court v ril should know that the Bondi plan would be the best for the town Councillor insisted that tenders be called He sold that principle was involved and that in addition some other per son might have a better plan possibly for manufacturing Deputyreeve an nounced that although ho viously suggested extension of lime for he had back- bone and would vote for ten dering Reeve Dales said he feared someone was trying to make a political football out of Newmarket municipal leaders subdivision near recently by East St on the north side of Davis Drive By doing this sewerage would be taken from the subdi vision through the towns sys tem The reeve also said that township official that coopera tion between the two municipali ties must work both ways The occasion wnS when New market officials attended a town- the subdivisions development if our luck themjtion of a play Born Yesterday all before we return home I will be discussed COMING EVENTS TAG DAT Hie Loyal True Blue wishes to thank the child ren of Newmarket who assisted in the recent tag day for the In stitution and the citizens for their generous response The tag day raised They want to see as much of the world as possible before they re turn to their formal education From Newmarket they will travel to the west coast via the TransCanada highway But again that vont be a fast through trip The travellers plan many side excursions to visit special places of interest and to call on relatives who ob ligingly are sprinkled across the Dominion After our own cooking those home cooked meals will be real- CmnmI Cowplains To Department Atari Television Interference Complaints television in terference by the new station on several channels were voiced at a meeting of Newmar ket town council on Monday night A resolution by Councillors and Hands was passed that a letter bo written to the Department of Transport and copy to the station pointing out the Barrio station interferes with our re ception on channels two and four Councillor Alex Hands who first made the enquiry said TIh programs on the are not Just as entertaining to me and to a lot of people as on other Said Councillor There are some good programs on Toronto but some times they are and very poor On the other hand there are bad on the American stations But he out that them one was able to have good en tertainment until the station started interfering with the Buffalo channels Councillor reminded council that the manage- room had written council before It opened the station and asked If it had any objections to Us opening Council replied that It approved of the station 1 guess we should have said It would bo okay long as they didnt conflict with any stations we were already receiving he said Said Dales dont own a set hut I hear there Is some attachment which can be put on to choke out the Interfering station A local television service man said yesterday that he has been with but that he could not soy that they haw much affect behind the tractor When he re versed the machine a wheel went over the boy No one else was at the scene at the time Mr Cooper took the child to his car and rushed to Newmarket but the boy was dead on arrival at the hospital NEW RESIDENTS WANT SUBDIVISION ROADS A deputation of five homo owners attended a meeting of Newmarket town council com plaining of road conditions In the Russell subdivision on the north side of Eagle St Formerly known as the Bong subdivision it has been develop ed this year The residents ask ed council if it could do anything to speed up the program before bad weather starts Deputyreeve Edward pointed out that the vlder must put in roads and cul verts and that the town does not take over responsibility for streets for two years Councillor suggested that town remind the sub- divider that he had quite a few concessions from this town par ticularly one that has just been given We should suggest that ho use dispatch in looking after his NO ARE GRANTED It was erroneously reported In last weeks Issue of the Era and Express that town council had approved houses In a subdivision north of Eagle Street The did approve of fur ther division of lots Into lots but the approval was not for semidetached houses and North York Hounds will meet Wednesday Oct Snowball Saturday Oct Farms Mr J Tory on KlngNohleton side road and con King Second Meetsame place Monday Oct Field Day- Beverley Farm Hunter Steeplechase etc THURSDAY OCT Bingo at Aurora Hall over in prizes Shore the wealth jack pot Admission for games FRIDAY OCT Presentation and dance for Mr and Mrs Bon Mitchell In Parish hall pm welcome FRIDAY OCT Euchre by in the Institute hail pm SATURDAY OCT Opening bingo in the Newmarket Town hall at Sponsored by St Johns church TUESDAY OCT The Red Cross will quilt and sew at Trinity United churn from oclock until Lunch Workers needed WEDNESDAY OCT Van Community Club euchre at pm Commun ity halt Prizes and refresh- WEDNESDAY OCT Thanksgiving In New market Town hall at pm Cash prizes Tnckpot numbers call ed Attendance prize Pro ceeds In aid of the Veterans Christmas Basket Fund Admis sion ranis WEDNESDAY OCT Aurora Skating Club will hold Its roRlstrntlnn In the east room of Old Town Halt St from to Pm and from to pm Private private and croup Instruction available In both figure and lw40 THURSDAY OCT Annual election of officers of the York North Women Assn Guest speaker Mr Tom Graham ship council meeting to sound out the townships attitude to ward the location of a town sew- ago disposal plant in the town ship Although there has been no definite statement as to where the exact location of the pro posed plant will be it is expect ed it will bo east of Second St in the vicinity of the municipal dump north of the town limits Mayor M Depu tyreeve Edward and the town engineer Bos- worth reviewed the towns plans for a disposal plant before the members of township ell Members of the township council asked about possible odors from the plant They pro posed a survey of the residents close to the proposed site The rub for Newmarket came when East GwllUmburys reeve John Rye with bland manner and voice pointed out Hint the township is anxious to co operate with the town of New market but the same time the township desires Newmarket services for East subdivision Tho reeve said that connections with sewerage system were would be aided by the town of Newmarket supplying water Town of Newmarket officials did not have a direct answer for said that all the members at tending the special meeting pre vious to this week had agreed to give an extension of time Deputyreeve re Mr Dales you kept say ing will think and I said I could stand on my own two feet Councillor insisted that it was a matter of principle the reeve A policy was set by He recalled an incident in 1953 Newmarket this year regarding before he was a member of development within its own when he offered 10 foot tiers that no more subdivisions same land He had permitted without a tended to build small factory industrial development Tliej property high cost of municipal services has been catching tip with the town with the recent increase in house building Beyond the emphasis on co operation no decisions were made at the meeting between the municipalities At thai time he said Council violated the principle of justice for all While he was away on a trip he said the property was sold to Mr for 935 per foot of frontage Page 10 Col Local Veteran Protests Against Moving Patients From Sunnybrook In the Fire Hall auditorium at pm FRIDAY OCT Euchre Aurora MM Hall below Fish er Store pm under aus pices of Queen Mary Admission Refreshments good prizes FRIDAY OCT to pm tea bake sale the home of Mrs Ballard North Yongo Newmarket Under auspices of The York County Hospital Auxiliary For trans portation phone Newmarket FRIDAY Oct Opportunity sate of good used clothing by Club In town hall basement pm WEDNESDAY OCT Bingo In legion hall pm Jackpot games 35c Sponsored by the Newmarket Canadian AND SAT Oct 10 21 and Jane cent sale Bests Drug store Newmarket TUESDAY OCT CWU af ternoon tea variety sale and evening bridge and euchre at Firemens hall Newmarket This tea postponed from Oct De tails Inter THURSDAY OCT Hallow een tea and bazaar St Pauls Parochial Guild in the parish hall Newmarket from to HP m Suncrvisod nursery Admis sion FRIDAY OCT 28 Concert at Trinity Untied church pm with Keswick and other district etwlfl THURSDAY NOV Autumn tea and and hake the Newmarket hall to pm sponsnred by ladles Auxiliary Silver collect ion FRIDAY NOV It euchre and dance Prizes for euchre dance In Newmarket Fire hall Tickets or for BINGO every Saturday night ftt every at In North Irmbury Memorial Centre wick te GOOD ENROLMENT FOR NIGHT CLASSES Sufficient enrolment for the Newmarket high school night classes has been made for sever al courses Starting on Wednes day evening October at pm there will be classes in typ ing bookkeeping shorthand woodworking welding and Eng lish for New Canadians A class in oil painting will start on Monday Oct AH classes are held on Monday and Wednesday evenings of each week Night School Principal J W said that further re gistrations in all classes except woodworking and welding will be accepted A Newmarket veteran has written to complain about the proposed move of tuberculosis patients from hospi tal William New market says that patients are unhappy about the plans which would scatter them among other small hospitals Although reports from Ottawa quoted Veterans Affairs officials as stating that 25 tuberculosis pa tients at Sunnybrook Hospital will be moved to provincial sani tariums for better treatment the patients were still insisting that they remain at Sunnybrook where they would receive bet ter treatment A brief forwarded to Ottawa by the 25 had not been answered they sold though Ottawa reports said that it had been received by Veterans Affalra Minister The brief protested against plans to move them from big military hospital and demanded that they bo retained at In Ottawa department officials Councillor A Newmarket returned from Japan a week ago after spending a month and a half in the country in connection with his leather finishing business Just to prove that he visited a Geisha house in Tokyo he brought home this picture Shown with the councillor above with entertainer are two officials of a leather company with which he was associated The Geisha spend year in training to be entertainers and their dancing Itf well known throughout the world claimed It was not policy to treat tuberculosis patients in veterans hospitals unless provincial sani tariums were full and unable to take them With space now available In Ontario they said the veterans were occupying 25 beds in which were needed for treatment purposes for other patients Furthermore they said the 26 patients were in a section con taining beds in nil the balance of which were Immobilised be cause of the danger of Infection following Is Mr letter to a district veterans We the patients In the wing of Hospital feel that wo are getting a raw deal lost Saturday morning out of a blue sky we were told that this ward was to be closed and wo were to be scattered about country in civilian sans this wo think unfair Hos pital was built as a veterans hos pital and wo think wo have as much right to be treated hero tor our war disabilities as any other type of war disability In Dr our superintendent own words Sunnybrook Is the best equipped and best staffed hospital in Ihe county Wo think wo have a right to these facili ties There are various rumors of why this move Is being made first that they need the beds tor other cases This cant be are lots of empty beds nil hospital in fact we are told whole wards ore now closed which could easily opened Secondly wo hear that this space Is to be used for offices for DVA Was that what was built for an office building Friends we need your help and we need It now as they are rushing this move through with out delay If you can help us now that we need It will you If you could your member of parliament or it you belong to a club or any organization would you get them Interested But please do it now as this fa being rushed When you us were ready How we need